Thank you for visiting Baranski Hammer Moretta & Sheehy’s (BHMS) website. BHMS was founded as Baranski Hammer & Associates in 1991 in Galena, Illinois, focusing primarily on historic preservation and custom residential work. The number of services offered grew based on demand by local and regional businesses and civic organizations. Baranski Hammer acquired the thirty-year old firm of Moretta & Sheehy Architects in December of 2006. Moretta & Sheehy’s vast resume of institutional and commercial work along with Baranski Hammer’s broad experience gives the firm the resources to provide expanded services to clients both large and small. Baranski Hammer Moretta & Sheehy (BHMS) has offices in Chicago and Galena, Illinois.
BHMS offers a wide range of architecture, master planning and design services. The firm has gained extensive regional experience through commissions for historic preservation, restoration and renovation, residential, commercial, religious institutional, governmental, light industrial, space planning, ADA and life safety analysis, multi-family housing and mixed-use projects.